Notices by Angle (angle@anticapitalist.party)

Welp, trying to install linux on a fresh machine, and as usual, it's a fucking adventure. Tried both mx linux and linux mint, and I think both had the same problem - it 'loses' the thumb drive somewhere along the way and stops being able to read files from it for some reason? But not until after I've started the process. Motherboard is Z790 AORUS ELITE AX, for anyone who's curious. :/

Still working on this. Tried a lot of stuff, and made no progress. Might try updating the motherboard firmware next? Not sure yet. :/

Okay, I got the linux installed! I ended up salvaging and installing a CD Drive from an old computer, and then figuring out the SATA port I plugged it into was disabled because of where I put my SSD, and then the CD Drive didn't want to open from me just pushing the button, I had to push and hold for a couple seconds... But after all that, I got it working!

That's assuming it's not all just a grift, but hey, fiddly details. -_-

...Can the robotics companies stop treating us like we're idiots? First Tesla, now Meta - "This robot is here to do your housework!" No, it's here to take our jobs. I can add 2 + 2 and get 4, thank you.

Found a neat thing: https://opensourcegardens.info/technologies.en.html

#OpenSource #gardening #permaculture

@madeindex Not yet. I decided to leave off the blog for now, I can add that later if I decide I need it. Just static pages at the moment.

Finally going to go and make myself a proper personal website. Nothing fancy, just the basics. Anyone have any suggestions or advice for me? I think I'm going to stick to basic HTML and the like as much as possible.

Anyone seen: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/movement/

And have anything to say about them? I think they look vaguely positive, but I haven't looked them over in detail yet.

And to cap it off with, something inspirational: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ipHRTkvWM

@lightspill Mmm, I have mixed feelings. Wouldn't mind having, like, stages of UI or something? So it starts out simple, and then there's a config option to ratchet up complexity? Which itself adds complexity, but, so it goes. XD

Additionally, on the subject as a whole, many of the things I outlined are pretty hard to do at a major scale, but I think there's a lot of potential to start chipping away at them in little bits and pieces, and take things from there. If you have special experience in some manner of coding, say profiling and optimization, or infosec, for example, maybe offer that publicly as a resource for FOSS development?

Going to go ahead and publicly offer my skills for OSS development! I don't think I can take over as primary maintainer for anything, but I can do some quantity of coding volunteering or even tutoring. If you have OSS you need help with, or want me to offer what tutoring I can on a coding subject to further your development on an OSS project, feel free to contact me! I will describe my limited qualifications below.

I have been coding in various languages for almost two decades now, albeit entirely as an amateur. I've been using Linux as my sole operating system for a bit over a decade, and have significant experience in Java and GDScript, and more limited experience in C++, Python, Lisp, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and GLSL. I have worked on websites, developed games, developed mods, and generally just poked around with all sorts of things.

At the current time, most of my experience is using Godot Engine. If you have an OSS project and you need some help with it, go ahead and contact me! I'd like to stick to no more than 5 hours of work per week or so, but I am willing to work for free, so long as it's an open source project. I am also willing to offer tutoring, if you develop an OSS project and want guidance on one of the topis outlined above.

@alcinnz And you need to make sure they're able to communicate and coordinate, which adds it's own requirements in terms of skills and time, on top of the actual software development.

And of course, none of these will effectively motivate people if the work is too heavy, so it needs to be kept light enough it's not a prohibitive burden. Spreading it out over multiple people could certainly help, though obviously that presents its own challenge?

All of these are things that can be provided in greater or lesser extent, based on how we structure things - if you want people to be motivated by the sense of a job well done, then you need to make sure they can tell how important the job is and how good they're doing at it. If you want them to be motivated by the opportunity to develop skills, then you need to make sure they actually get that opportunity, same for connecting with others, etc.

I will also note, we probably can't rely on funding for the bulk of our efforts - which means that FLOSS work needs to be worth doing even without funding. This means it needs to be light enough work that it doesn't burn out volunteers, and it needs to provide some other reward. The sense of a job well done, the opportunity to learn new skills, the opportunity to connect with others and make a difference, etc, etc.

@alcinnz IMO, FLOSS is one of our best bets for defeating capitalism, or at least for laying the groundwork. So, we'll need to figure out some other way to fund it.